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Fake News/Real News Chart

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Pretty good grid here to take in at a glance.

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I'd say that's pretty damn accurate. Thanks!
 
calamity said:
Pretty good grid here to take in at a glance.

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None of these work if you're listening or watching talk show hosts rather than news broadcasts. Or reading op-eds rather than news.

IMO, we'd be much better off watching ABC, CBS and NBC NEWS every night and forget alll the rest.
 
I gotta say, NPR has, since the Trump campaign, been leaning further and further liberal.
 
MaggieD said:
None of these work if you're listening or watching talk show hosts rather than news broadcasts. Or reading op-eds rather than news.

IMO, we'd be much better off watching ABC, CBS and NBC NEWS every night and forget alll the rest.
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Sorry, but if I had to choose a nightly news broadcast, it would be Special Report on Fox News. They cover ALL the news, not just the news that fits a certain political ideology.

I'll give you an example from last night that proves my point... Yesterday, it was announced that that the recount in Wisconsin was finished and that the recount in Pennsylvania was halted. Both states then certified Trump as the winner of the 2016 presidential election. That news was presented by Special Report, but was completely ignored by ABC's World News Tonight and the NBC Nightly News. CBS was the only big 3 network that reported the story, but they labeled it as the "Green Party" recount, never mentioning Jill Stein's name.

It's Special Report all the way if you want all the news and what both sides have to say about it.


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KevinKohler said:
I gotta say, NPR has, since the Trump campaign, been leaning further and further liberal.
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I would agree. This election season they have always been anti Trump but as the primaries wore down they moved more liberal. Even during the Bush years they were left of center but occasionally but on a right viewpoint it story now it is all left leaning stories.

I actually cancelled my membership this year. My 120 may not be bankrupting them but it was my way of protesting
 
So the following, according to the chart, are mainstream (minimal partisan bias) and meet high standards?

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Such a rating is absolutely laughable and completely destroys the credibility of the chart, and whoever assembled it. Washington Post/New York Times = minimal partisan bias?

:lamo
 
calamity said:
Pretty good grid here to take in at a glance.

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That graph was probably put together by someone left leaning. I don't agree with more than half of it. HuffPo is a waste of time. that I would compare to WND on the right. NYT and WaPo flushed their credibili9ty a long time ago. Slate and Vox are better than a lot of them but more of a collection of regurgitated opinion mixed with news. Yep, pretty but not accurate.
 
ocean515 said:
So the following, according to the chart, are mainstream (minimal partisan bias) and meet high standards?

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Such a rating is absolutely laughable and completely destroys the credibility of the chart, and whoever assembled it. Washington Post/New York Times = minimal partisan bias?

:lamo
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I kind of figured the Right would feel that way.
 
Interesting. I have never heard of any of the outlets in the Liberal utter garbage column but have heard of all the ones in the conservative utter garbage one.
 
calamity said:
I kind of figured the Right would feel that way.
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Why? You don't think there are any objective thinkers on the left?

Even you have to admit the Washington Post and New York Times don't have any relationship to "minimal partisan bias".

So where did you get this chart?
 
ocean515 said:
Why? You don't think there are any objective thinkers on the left?

Even you have to admit the Washington Post and New York Times don't have any relationship to "minimal partisan bias".

So where did you get this chart?
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Facebook
 
BrewerBob said:
Interesting. I have never heard of any of the outlets in the Liberal utter garbage column but have heard of all the ones in the conservative utter garbage one.
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I have. Both are quack-a-doodle sites pushing crazy theories from chem trails to the fake moon landing. Anti-vax, GMO is poison, that sort of thing.
 
calamity said:
I kind of figured the Right would feel that way.
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The fact that the Left finds no partisanship on some those sources should tell you something ... does it?
Where'd you get it, anyway.
 
calamity said:
I have. Both are quack-a-doodle sites pushing crazy theories from chem trails to the fake moon landing. Anti-vax, GMO is poison, that sort of thing.
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I figured as much. Granted it is just anecdotal but I feel as though stories from those sites don't get shared as much as stories from the fringe conservative sources. At least not on this board or in my Facebook feed. Maybe other people have a different experience.
 
BrewerBob said:
I figured as much. Granted it is just anecdotal but I feel as though stories from those sites don't get shared as much as stories from the fringe conservative sources. At least not on this board or in my Facebook feed. Maybe other people have a different experience.
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lol..could it be because our Left leaning posters know fake news when they see it?
 
ocean515 said:
So the following, according to the chart, are mainstream (minimal partisan bias) and meet high standards?

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Such a rating is absolutely laughable and completely destroys the credibility of the chart, and whoever assembled it. Washington Post/New York Times = minimal partisan bias?

:lamo
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Exactly what my impression is as well.

ocean515 said:
Why? You don't think there are any objective thinkers on the left?

Even you have to admit the Washington Post and New York Times don't have any relationship to "minimal partisan bias".

So where did you get this chart?
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calamity said:
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:lamo
Priceless.
 
Now, there's a matrix? :lamo :lamo
 
BrewerBob said:
I figured as much. Granted it is just anecdotal but I feel as though stories from those sites don't get shared as much as stories from the fringe conservative sources. At least not on this board or in my Facebook feed. Maybe other people have a different experience.
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I think part of it is thinkers spends more time and effort looking at right wing sites than the right does left. I hear more about what Rush, Hannity, etc say from left leaning people than I go from frightening folks or their own words.
 
i'd probably move the Washington Post and the NYT left. i doubt that there's any source other than CSPAN that belongs on the middle line.

i will say that the article comments on the post's site are often hilarious, though. most of those posters would point out here in about a week, lol. :lol:

edit to add : AP and Reuters are pretty close to the middle, IMO.
 
eohrnberger said:
Exactly what my impression is as well.





:lamo
Priceless.
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Actually the breakdown is pretty accurate. I should know since I'm a centrist.
 
BrewerBob said:
Interesting. I have never heard of any of the outlets in the Liberal utter garbage column but have heard of all the ones in the conservative utter garbage one.
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Depends on how you perceive garbage. Personally, I read Natural news and Infowars and everything in between.
 
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